Content bookmarking

• US 8,364,013 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2010
• Issued: 01/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cox Communications Incorporated (Cox Enterprises Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Cox Communications Incorporated (Cox Enterprises Incorporated)
• Inventors: Nijim, Yousef Wasef
• Primary Examiner(s): Chevalier, Robert
• Application Number:
  US12/868,838
• Publication Number:
  US 20120051717A1
• Time in Patent Office: 887 Days
• Field of Search: 386/241, 386/239, 386/248, 386/343, 386/344, 386/345, 386/347
• US Class Current: 386/239
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

Content bookmarking may be provided. First, a content program may be displayed and a user initiated input may be received. Next, in response to the user initiated input, a currently displayed point in the content program may be jumped from to a time stamped point in the content program. The content program may then be displayed from the time stamped point.

Claims

1. A method for providing content bookmarking, the method comprising:

displaying a content program;

receiving a user initiated input;

the user initiate input indicating an interval of time to jump within the content program;

jumping, in response to the user initiated input, from a currently displayed point in the content program to a time stamped point in the content program; and

displaying the content program from the time stamped point.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the user initiated input comprises receiving the user initiated input corresponding to the time stamped point.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the user initiated input comprises receiving the user initiated input corresponding to the time stamped point and indicating a jump forward in the content program.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the user initiated input comprises receiving the user initiated input corresponding to the time stamped point and indicating a jump backward in the content program.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein jumping from the currently displayed point in the content program to the time stamped point in the content program comprises jumping forward in the content program.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein jumping from the currently displayed point in the content program to the time stamped point in the content program comprises jumping backward in the content program.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein jumping from the currently displayed point in the content program to the time stamped point in the content program comprises jumping to the time stamped point comprising one of a plurality of stamped points being evenly spaced at a predetermined amount of time apart from the beginning of the content program.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein jumping from the currently displayed point in the content program to the time stamped point in the content program comprises jumping to the time stamped point comprising one of a plurality of stamped points being evenly spaced at a predetermined percentage of the content program'"'"'s total time apart.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the content program from the time stamped point comprises displaying the content program on a portable device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the content program from the time stamped point comprises displaying the content program on a television (TV) from a digital video recorder (DVR).

11. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the content program from the time stamped point comprises displaying the content program on a computer display from a computer.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the content program from the time stamped point comprises displaying the content program comprising one of the following:

a video on demand program, a purchased program saved to a digital video recorder (DVR), a rented program saved to the DVR, and a purchased program stored on a network.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising placing the time stamp in the content program in response to a user command.

14. A computer-readable storage device that stores a set of instructions which when executed perform a method for providing content bookmarking, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising:

displaying a content program;

receiving a user initiated input;

the user input indicating that the content program be played back at a point that is one of the following;

a preset amount of time before a currently displayed point in the content program and the present amount of time ahead of the currently displayed point in the content program, the present amount of time;

jumping, in response to the user initiated input, from a currently displayed point in the content program to a time stamped point in the content program, wherein jumping from the currently displayed point in the content program to the time stamped point in the content program comprises jumping to the time stamped point comprising one of a plurality of stamped points being evenly spaced at a predetermined percentage of the content program'"'"'s total time apart; and

displaying the content program from the time stamped point.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14, wherein receiving the user initiated input comprises receiving the user initiated input corresponding to the time stamped point.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14, wherein receiving the user initiated input comprises receiving the user initiated input corresponding to the time stamped point and indicating a jump forward in the content program.

17. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14, wherein receiving the user initiated input comprises receiving the user initiated input corresponding to the time stamped point and indicating a jump backward in the content program.

18. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14, wherein jumping from the currently displayed point in the content program to the time stamped point in the content program comprises jumping forward in the content program.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14, wherein jumping from the currently displayed point in the content program to the time stamped point in the content program comprises jumping backward in the content program.

20. A system for providing content bookmarking, the system comprising:

a memory storage; and

a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to;

display a content program;

receive a user initiated input;

the user initiated input indicating that the content program be played back at a point that is one of the following;

a preset amount of time before a currently displayed point in the content program and the present amount of time ahead of the currently displayed point in the content

jump, in response to the user initiated input, from a currently displayed point in the content program to a time stamped point in the content program, wherein the processing unit is being operative to jump from the currently displayed point in the content program to the time stamped point in the content program comprises the processing unit is being operative to jump to the time stamped point comprising one of a plurality of stamped points being evenly spaced at a predetermined amount of time apart from the beginning of the content program; and

display the content program from the time stamped point.